Southeast Louisiana Clean Fuels Partnership Coalition

Rebecca Otte is the Environmental Programs Coordinator at the Regional Planning Commission (RPC) which includes five parishes (counties) in southeast Louisiana: Orleans, Jefferson, Plaquemines, St. Bernard and St. Tammany. Otte has served as the coordinator for the Southeast Louisiana Clean Fuel Partnership since 2007. In addition, she manages the Brownfield Redevelopment Program, oversees projects under the Lake Pontchartrain Restoration Program, and supervises progress on environmental assessments of transportation projects.

Prior to moving to New Orleans in 2003, Otte worked for four years as a staff engineer and project manager for an environmental consulting firm in Huntington Beach, California, where her projects included phase-one and -two environmental site assessments, underground storage tank removals and closures, aboveground tank installations, and environmental risk assessment and remediation of contaminated sites.

Otte has a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from Valparaiso University and a Master of Urban and Regional Planning from the University of New Orleans. She also served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Mali, West Africa, in the water and sanitation division.